Regency Science and Invention: Patents from September 1813

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and the most fruitful in useful applica To John Westwood of Sheffield in tions that we have for a long time the county of York artist and general mapresented to them nufacturer for a method of embossing ivory by pressure Dated September 4 List of other Patents lately grunted and of 1813 which we solicit Copies of the Specifications To JACOB BRAZILL of Great Yarmouth To FRANK PARKINSON of the town of in the county of Norfolk gentleman foe Kingstun iipon Hull distiller for a still and a machine for workiug capstans and pumps boiler for preventing accidents by fire and on board ships Dated September 4 1813 for preserving spirits aud other articles from We invite all Putentees to fuvour us with waste in the operation of distilling and copies of their Specifications boiling Dated Sept 4 1813

Descriptions appeared  in The Monthly Magazine, Volume 36 (1813).

Specification of the Patent granted to FRANK PARKINson of the Town of Kingston upon Hull Distiller for an improved Method for a Still and Builer for preventing Accidents by Fire and for preserving Spirits and other Articles from wuste in the Operation of distilling and boiling Dated September 4 1813 4 With a Plate To all O all to whom these presents shall come & c NOW KNOW ye that in compliance with the said proviso I the said Frank Parkinson do hereby declare that the nature of my said invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed is described and ascertained in the plan hereunto annexed and in the explanation thereof following that is to say I construct & dish or conductor with a spout or pipe or pipes made of a sheet or sheets of copper or of any other metal or metals or compound or mixture of metals but I prefer copper which I affix by means of rivets and solder both or either upon the breast or any other more convenient part of the still with hard or soft solder as may be required from the degree of heat the article distilled may boil at or I construct the dish and spout part in any other manner so as to answer the same purpose or 1 affix it in any other manner to prevent the spirit and other
а other inflammable matter in case the still boils over and breaks the luting and forces the head up or off from getting between the still and the brick work into the wheel flue or furnace or from running over the top of the brick work into the furnace door The dish may extend two or three feet from the still or it may at pleasure cover entirely the top of the brick work which as well as the dish must be made hollow and have a fall towards the still and thence to the spout or pipe or pipes The receiver may be placed between the still and worm tub or the liquid or other matter may be carried through an aperture in the wall into another room or place The spirit or inflamınable matter so boiling over where the head fits on is thereby kept entirely free from the fire The letters a au aa Plate IV denote the improvement of my patent For Boilers Take the still head off and the same rivetting and dish principle applies to boilers for oil and all other inflammable matter whether the boilers are shaped like a still or open at the top like boilers in the usual way The receiver must be attached in the same manner as directed in the still The dish and spout part applies whether made of cast or wrought iron or any other metal or metals or compound or mixture of metals and fastened by means of rivets iron or other cemeni or otherwise constructed made or fastened In witness whereof & c The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures (1813)

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